THIS MEMORIAL to the Congress of the United States has been prepared in accordance with the action of the Board of Trustees of the University of Mississippi, taken June 12, 1893, when it was resolved: "That the Chancellor be requested to prepare a memorial to the Congress of the United States, asking the grant to this University of a township of land for the reasons outlined in his report this day made; that he submit such memorial, when prepared, for signatures of each member of this Board, and that when signed by as many as twelve (12) members of this Board, the same shall be treated as, and it shall be, the memorial of this Board, and the Chancellor will be authorized to lay the same before Congress." ROBERT B. FULTON, UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, December 16, 1893. Chancellor. |